AMD does have such a thing, they call it the R series. Not sure where you could get one or how much it would cost, but I surely won't be sponsoring you
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Originally posted by Ansla View PostAMD does have such a thing, they call it the R series. ...
I still have to see one with working ECC.
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@bridgman
I would not add a dedicated card in an amd system with onboard vga. That's useless in several ways - the cpu power is much lower than a similar priced Intel system. You can see differences with OC ram, but for what purpose? The games that were benchmarked usually have got a >15y old engine as base, ok, with improvements. Xonotic for example uses Darkplaces engine, thats a Quake 1 based engine, if you lower the extra effects you can run it easyly on a 10y old system. OpenArena uses a modified Quake 3 engine. Some hints: Quake 1 -> 1996 (19y old), Quake 3 -> 1999 (16y old). If you see "current" OpenGL 4 games benchmarked then you can forget every lowend card. Use it for video playback or browser games, thats what you should do with it (you can play Quake 3 as browser game, called Quake Live).
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Originally posted by Kano View PostI would not add a dedicated card in an amd system with onboard vga.
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At least for the FM2+ socket, multiple connectors are not that rare. You can even get boards with 4 of them (like the ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+), but since every one is a different type it's clear they were placed there for convenience (to avoid using adaptors) rather then for connecting multiple monitors.
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Originally posted by Kano View Post@bridgman
I would not add a dedicated card in an amd system with onboard vga. That's useless in several ways ...
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Originally posted by Kano View PostI would not add a dedicated card in an amd system with onboard vga. That's useless in several ways - the cpu power is much lower than a similar priced Intel system.
So, lets see what graphics card a gamer back then would pair their i7 with. Most likely a Radeon HD 5970 (equivalent in raw power with a R9 290), but lets say that raw power was wasted on the internal CrossFire so I'll go with Radeon HD 5870 (equivalent in raw power to a R9 270X).
Now, can you explain to me why an Intel CPU was perfectly fine to pair with those monsters, but an AMD CPU with similar performance is just "meh, don't even bother"?
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